Monhegan Fisherman Waiting on the Market by Michael Vermette  33×46″  Oil

Michael Vermette has his own style. I am personally drawn to the paintings that have a good bit of dark and light – so dramatic, and clean – crisp with wonderful shadows, but truly, I love them all. This painting of the Monhegan fisherman waiting on the market is breathtaking! This painting is available at Gleason Fine Art in Booth Bay Harbor, Maine.

Take a peek at Michael’s website as well as the gallery websites, including the Lupine Gallery, they have some wonderful pieces!

Read a bit about Michael, from his website:

“Michael E. Vermette double majored in Painting and Printmaking at the Maine College of Art, receiving his B.F.A Painting degree in 1980. He received his Certification in K-12 Art Education in 1986 through the University of Maine at Orono. A full-time artist and part-time teacher, Michael  has been painting in oil, watercolor, and pastel for over forty years and has won numerous awards for his work, including the Laura Coleman and the Beverly Awards at the 12th and 13th Biennial North American Open Shows of the New England Watercolor Society. Most recently, Michael was the 2011 Baxter State Park Artist-in-Residence. Michael leads several plein air painting workshops in Maine and New Hampshire in watercolor and oil painting throughout the year. He is a Monhegan Artists’ Residency Fellow and was twice an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park. His watercolors, oils, and pastels are in private collections throughout the country and internationally. In Maine, his works have been shown in various galleries, including the North Light Gallery in Millinocket, the Lupine Gallery on Monhegan Island, the Elizabeth Moss Gallery in Falmouth, The Lupin Gallery on Monhegan Island, and The Courthouse Gallery in Ellsworth. 

All images via MichaelEVermette.com, used with permission…

Images are not for reproduction, they are property of the artist.

Catch you back here tomorrow!

Ghost Boat by Claudia Hershman 16×20″ Mixed Media

Claudia Hershman has interesting abstracts, they’re fun and different. The featured painting, Ghost Boat, has that lovely pop of orange against that wonderful blue green. Lots of little interesting things thrown into the mix. Take a look at Claudia’s paintings, they’re sure to bring a smile to your face.

Read a bit about Claudia, from her website:

All images via ClaudiaHershman.com, used with permission…

Thank you Claudia for submitting your website! It’s how I find out about artists that I may not have run across!

Images are not for reproduction, they are property of the artist.

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Bonfire by Matthew W. Cornell  12×12″ Oil on Panel

Available at Arcadia Contemporary Gallery in LA

Wow, what a painting! Matthew Cornell’s paintings make you feel as if you are right there… watching the embers in the air, feeling the cool breeze on one side of you while the fire heats the other side, hearing the crackling of the wood – fabulous painting!

Wave Study by Matthew W. Cornell (as shown on his easel) – [SOLD]

I saw this recently on Matthew’s Facebook page – can you believe someone can capture a wave so well? The foaminess, those wonderful greens and blues the warm color of the sand, the MOVEMENT is so perfect. Be sure to check out ore of Matthew’s painting on his website, Instagram and Facebook! You won’t believe how fabulous!

Read a bit about Matthew, from the Arcadia Contemporary Gallery website:

“Matthew Cornell was born in Fairfield, CA in 1964. His first memories are of traveling across the United States in a car. His childhood was, in a sense, the quintessential American experience, because the notion of a “road trip” was conceived and perpetrated by Americans. The automobile and the family trip was, and still is, ours. It is these experiences driving across this land at a young age that formed his way of seeing things. Cornell says, ”Every year we travelled across the US and I spent most of my time looking out of the window and observing the landscape and weather. We moved a lot and I got to see almost every part of this country. It was a blessing. It made me aware of the variety and the vastness the US has to offer.”

Weather became the dominant influence on his early landscape painting. “I have always been fascinated by the extremes of weather and the power of nature,” he says. “It is in a constant state of creation and destruction, of origin and destination. With every day, the planet begins anew. Nature seeks equilibrium. It is in a never ending cycle.” Cornell prefers the sublime and meditative observations of land and seascape, the narrative of majestic weather, and somber cloudscapes sweeping across the land and vast empty sea.

Recently his paintings have turned more complex, with dusk and night scenes, streetlights on secluded homes. The visual backdrop has allowed a subtle narrative of mystery and intrigue. “Landscapes at this hour are like ghosts that are unseen during the day, only to be revealed by the strange and myriad ways the night time glows”, Cornell says. These narratives include neighborhoods that mirror the kind he grew up in and the longing he now has to find home. “I spent a great deal of my childhood moving and this has greatly influenced my new work. I am searching for that elusive notion of where I come from and where I belong.”

Cornell has been part of many group, solo, and museum shows since 1997. He now lives and maintains a studio in Orlando, FL.”

All images via MatthewCornell.com, used with permission…

Images are not for reproduction, they are property of the artist.

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